The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-06
THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS
CALLED TO ORDER YESTERDiY
AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Great Crowds at the Cspitoi-rhe rsual
scenes Incident To Congressional
Opening Personnel of the Senate-Pro
esedings In the House The Speaker &c
WASHINGTON, December 5.-When the
curtain was rung up on the Fiftieth Con-
gress at noon to-day the audience was
one OF the most brilliant ones ever seen
In the galleries, aud the prologue Of the
great political drama was looked at with
intense Interest, for the spectators knew
that the destiny Of the two great parties
is involved In this Congress. In the
Senate nearly all the desks were deco
rated with bouquets, and the temperature
was just warm enough 10 cause that
iiutter OF female fans in the packed gal.
leries that produces such an enliyening
effect.
In the Presidents Gallery were Mrs.
Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom with party
Of friends.
In the Diplomatic gallery were the
Chinese Legation, he Russian Minister
and attaches OF others with ladies. Mr..
Chamberlain and others of the fisheries
negotiators arrived later.
On the House side the throng was
greater still
The first point of interest was the
nomination OF Mr. Carlisle for speaker by
Mr. Cox of New York
The Democratic party seemed To be on
grand celebration picnic, for, besides
the little antic of an unintentional quar-
rel between Messers. Blount and Brecken.
ridge in the caucus, no ugly incident had
marred the good humor of the past few
days. On all sides the watch was
harmony
PERSONNEL OF THE SENATE.
The personnel of the Senate is as fol-
lows Holdover Republican Senators
Messrs. Stanford, California Bowen
and Teller, Colorado Plat, Connecti-
cut Cullom and Farwell, Illinois; VIII
sou and Allison, Iowa; ingalls, and
Plumb, Kansas Frye, Maine; Hoar,
Massachusetts, Palmer, Michigan Sabin,
Minnesota Msnderson, Nebraska Jones,
Nevada Blair, New Hampshire Eyarts,
New York Dolph and Mitchell, Oregon ;
Cameron, Pennsylvania Chace, Rhode
Island Morrill,, Vermont; Riddleberger,
Virginia, and Spooner, Wisconsin.
Hold-oyer Democratic Senators. Messrs
Morgan and Pugh, Alabama Berry and
Jones, Arkansas; Salisbury, Delaware ,
Call, Florida; Colquitt and Brown,
Georgia, Voorhees,, Indiana; Beck and
Blackburn, Kentucky; Gibson and Eus-
It's, Louisiana; Wilson, Maryland; Wal
thall, Mississippi; Vest, Missouri Nc
Pherson, New Jersey; Ransom and
Vance, North Carolina; Payne, Ohio I.
Butler and Hampton, South Carolina /;
Harris, Tennessee Coke, Texas, and
Kenna, West Virginia.
Beside these fifty Senators equally di-
yided between the two parties are the
twentysix Senators-fourteen Repub-
licans and twelve Democratic-wh
come to be sworn in either to commence
new terms OF 10 enter for the first time
the arena Of the Senate These are
Republicans -Aldrich, Rhode Island ;
Chandler New Hampshire; Davis, Min
nesots; Dawes, Massachusetts, Edmunds,
Vermont Hale, Maine; Hawley, Con-
necticut Hiscock, New York Paddock,
Nebraska; Quay, Pennsylvania Sawyer
Wisconsin; Sherman, Ohio; Stewart,
Nevada Stockbridge, Michigan.
Democrats Bate, Tennessee; Blocgett,
New Jersey Cockrell, Missouri; Daniel,
Virginia Faulkner West Virginia
George, Wisconsin Gormand, Mary
land Gray, Delaware Hearst, Califor-
MIA Pasco, Florida Reagan, Texas
Turpie, Indiana